In 1998, during 8CyberConf in a former abbatoir in Budapest the idea was put forward to offer moving images, that had to be open and unlicensed and designed to run on old media as well, such as computers that can only render tekst.

De video classic Deep Throat (1972) was converted to a text file, which one could browse on an old TTY-terminal as well. The film was chosen because of the many close-ups, that are essential to porn movies. Too many details is difficult to convert into a simple transferable text. In deep.ascii there are no pornographic images but indecipherable ASCII-versions.

In those days, most people had no or old computers. Much technology is designed to overcome human limitations, but can often cause new limitations, out of which new ideas can rise. The star of the movie, Linda Lovelace, turned activist against abuse of women in the porn industry.